USN-5397-1: curl vulnerabilities

Publication date

28 April 2022

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in curl.


Packages

  • curl - HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries

Details

Patrick Monnerat discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain OAUTH2.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information.
(CVE-2022-22576)

Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain requests.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information.
(CVE-2022-27774, CVE-2022-27775, CVE-2022-27776)

Patrick Monnerat discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain OAUTH2.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information.
(CVE-2022-22576)

Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain requests.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information.
(CVE-2022-27774, CVE-2022-27775, CVE-2022-27776)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:


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